There is one thing that I fear more than anything else, and that is the dead, cold formalism of the Church of God. So many of us are just sleeping and slumbering while souls are perishing. Some are beginning to rub our eyes and get them half-opened, but as a whole we are asleep.
—D. L. Moody
Do not slumber or sleep, but be always trimming your spiritual lamp, knowing you are shortly to meet the bridegroom.
—George Whitefield
“The resurrection blessing is to be perfected by-and-by at the appearing of our Lord and Saviour, for then our bodies shall rise again, if we fall asleep before his coming.”
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
—George Orwell
At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous voice, that the condemned man himself would have fallen asleep while listening to it. The judge, no doubt, would have been the first of all to do so, had he not entered into an engrossing conversation while it was going on.
—Nikolai Gogol
How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense.
—Franz Kafka
What hath night to do with sleep?
—John Milton
Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, while pain and guilt still linger here below, blindness and numbness–these please me alone; Then do not wake me, keep your voices low.
—Michelangelo
My time I divide as follows: the one half I sleep; the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep; that would be a shame, because to sleep is the height of genius.
—Søren Kierkegaard
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?
—Ernest Hemingway
When I feel well and in a good humour, or when I am taking a drive or walking after a good meal, or in the night when I cannot sleep, thoughts crowd into my mind as easily as you could wish.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
When I am ….. completely myself, entirely alone… or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how these ideas come I know not nor can I force them.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Do not sleep under a roof. Carry no money or food. Go alone to places frightening to the common brand of men. Become a criminal of purpose. Be put in jail, and extricate yourself by your own wisdom.
—Miyamoto Musashi
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
—Thomas Aquinas
Every night human beings lay aside the wrappings in which they have enveloped their skin..
We may add that when they go to sleep they carry out an entirely analogous undressing of their minds.
—Sigmund Freud
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
—William Shakespeare
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
I awoke only to find that the rest of the world was still asleep.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Why does the eye see more clearly when asleep than the imagination when awake?
—Leonardo Da Vinci
How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
—Plato
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
There is one thing that I fear more than anything else, and that is the dead, cold formalism of the Church of God. So many of us are just sleeping and slumbering while souls are perishing. Some are beginning to rub our eyes and get them half-opened, but as a whole we are asleep.
—D. L. Moody
The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
—Heraclitus
In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.
—Nikolai Gogol
The dream is the guardian of sleep.
—Sigmund Freud
I love those that thunder out the word. The Christian world is in a deep sleep. Nothing but a loud voice can awaken them out of it.
—George Whitefield
If you do not come to Christ, you must either continue still weary and burdened, or, which is worse, you must return to your old dead sleep, to a state of stupidity; and not only so, but you must be everlastingly wearied with God’s wrath.
—Jonathan Edwards